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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 00/10] Add PWM framework and device tree support.
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:02:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202221602.09116.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329923841-32017-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>

On Wednesday 22 February 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> This patch series adds very rudimentary device-tree support for PWM
> devices. With all of these patches applied (plus one board-specific
> patch that is not included), I'm able to control the backlight on the
> device I'm working on using the sysfs interface provided by the pwm-bl
> driver and the backlight class.
> 
> This series is based on Sascha Hauer's series of patches[0] to add a
> generic PWM framework. The first patch in this series is taken from
> Sascha's branch, while the second patch enables each PWM chip to provide
> multiple PWM devices (the Blackfin and PXA drivers have been ported to
> the framework for reference). When this series is ready I think it would
> be best to merge patches 1 and 2. Currently a global namespace is still
> provided to keep backwards-compatibility with the legacy PWM API. In
> order to achieve this, the number of global PWM devices is limited to
> 1024. However, patch 2 introduces per-chip indexing of PWM devices in
> the core, so it should be easy to add an API to request a PWM device on
> a per-chip basis and get rid of the global namespace eventually. The
> device tree support code does not use the global namespace.

Hi Thierry,

I've just had a chance to look at your series and I think this looks
very good overall, great work!

I probably wouldn't bother merging patches 1 and 2 as you listed
in the TODO section, in order to keep the authorship of each
part obvious.

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 15:17 [PATCH v3 00/10] Add PWM framework and device tree support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] PWM: add pwm framework support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] pwm: Allow chips to support multiple PWMs Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 16:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-23  8:12     ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-23 14:07       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-23 16:04         ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-03 19:32           ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-06 15:38             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-06 19:17               ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] of: Add PWM support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 16:15   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-23  7:55     ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-23 14:03       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-24  6:47         ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-24 16:58           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-25 12:33             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-02-25 23:08               ` Ryan Mallon
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] arm/tegra: Fix PWM clock programming Thierry Reding
2012-02-28 21:01   ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-03 22:47     ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-05 17:33       ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] arm/tegra: Provide clock for only one PWM controller Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] pwm: Add NVIDIA Tegra SoC support Thierry Reding
2012-02-23  1:47   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-02-23  8:14     ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-23  9:25       ` Ryan Mallon
2012-02-24  6:48         ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-28 21:14   ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-03 22:42     ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-05  3:39       ` Olof Johansson
2012-03-05  7:00         ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] arm/tegra: Add PWFM controller device tree probing Thierry Reding
2012-02-28 21:20   ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-03 22:54     ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-04 20:39       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-05 17:51       ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-05 18:15         ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-05 18:39           ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] pwm: Add Blackfin support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] pwm: Add PXA support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:40   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-23  6:10     ` Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 15:17 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] pwm-backlight: Add rudimentary device tree support Thierry Reding
2012-02-22 16:02 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-02-23  7:29   ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Add PWM framework and " Thierry Reding

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